Smiffa2001 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Press release in english (Score 1) 347

by Smiffa2001 on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @11:42AM (#32253536) Attached to: The Pirate Bay Sinks And Swims

As opposed to without copyright law where the works would be destroyed in exactly the same way, except this time conditional on them existing in the first place?

Really now... And I suppose the following:

The Mona Lisa The Statue of David Plumbing The Steam Engine ...are all figments of everyone's imagination.

Vast portions of our art and history had NO Patent or Copyright "protection" to speak of and yet they were done. Your premise is, sadly, an old saw- and very, very much wrong.

Unfortunately most folks nowadays are so shit-scared of someone bigger and more powerful coming along and "stealing" their idea, leaving them (the inventor) in ruins, it might be their only perceived way of protecting themselves and their invention.

Comment Re:Night Driver FTW (Score 1) 241

by Smiffa2001 on Thursday April 08, 2010 @06:31AM (#31773532) Attached to: Videogame Driving Skills Don't Apply In Real Life

2) In GTA3 etc who cares about hitting small stuff like traffic cones?

Or pedestrians, other vehicles, buildings, street furniture, pedestrians....

Submission + - Unidentified transmission on 14.250 MHz

Submitted by Smiffa2001 on Friday January 09, 2009 @08:22PM

Smiffa2001 writes: The MAKE: blog is running a story with a YouTube video showing a strange repeating tone over the 20-metre 14.250 MHz band, as recorded by a ham radio enthusiast. One Make: commenter points out a forum thread here but there's not much else there or anywhere else to point to either the source or nature of the transmission, which by all accounts is still active. Given the vast store of knowledge and experience reading these hallowed pages, is there anything that the /. community could add to solving the mystery?

Comment Re:Linux (Score 1) 221

by Smiffa2001 on Saturday September 17, 2005 @08:34AM (#13583911) Attached to: Reducing The Negative Impact of Laptops

I think that if the user can't figure out how to use ctrl+alt+del, it's not a problem with the software.

Why not? If you couldn't work out how to start your car, would it be your fault? It seems to be what you're implying...
There's too much reliance on the "User is always wrong" approach in producing software and interfaces for it and that if they have a problem, they should just "deal with it". Consumer devices that take this approach just generally fail to catch on. If something says "Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to begin", they _might_ get pressed together or they might be pressed sequentially. Stuff like this gets missed out time and time again.

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